ON INVITING A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MINSK GROUP 
TO THE III CONGRESS OF THE RSDLP
[27 April 1905]

The Minsk Group*

The Congress, in accordance with the conclusion of the M. Commission, grants** the Minsk group the right to delegate [a representative] with consultative vote and instructs the bureau, if possible, to notify it of this by telegraph.

1 abstained
against
adopted

1 On 27 April 1905, at the fourth session of the III Congress of the RSDLP held in London, the report of the credentials commission was discussed. In the course of the discussion, a statement from the Minsk group of the North-Western Committee was read to the Organizational Committee for convening the congress, requesting that it be afforded the opportunity to send its own delegate to the III Congress of the Party with the right of consultative vote. Having examined the statement of the Minsk group, which stood at the point of view of the majority, the credentials commission proposed to the congress to permit it to send its delegate to the congress. On the basis of this conclusion, the Minsk group was granted the right to be represented at the congress. G. L. Shklovskii was its delegate.

M. M. Litvinov—Party member since 1898, Bolshevik. At the III Congress of the RSDLP he was a delegate with decisive vote from the Riga Committee of the RSDLP.

In his remarks during the discussion of the question of inviting a representative of the Minsk group to the congress, Litvinov reported that during his time in Minsk, individual members of the Minsk group, fearing a refusal from the North-Western Committee, which stood at conciliatory positions, expressed the desire to send their own delegate to the III Congress, even if only with consultative vote.

In connection with this, apparently, he composed the present draft resolution.

# EXCERPTS FROM THE NEWSPAPER "THE TIMES" ON THE CONFERENCE 
OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ZEMSTVOS 
IN RUSSIA1
[No earlier than 7 June 1905]

The *Times* correspondent reports that the conference was attended by 135 elected representatives from the zemstvos. 83 voted for direct elections to the lower chamber of the future parlia-

* These words were crossed out by V. I. Lenin.
** In the draft resolution it read: "The Credentials Commission proposes to the congress to grant." This version was corrected by V. I. Lenin.